On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:20:11PM +0200, Jaromil wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Noel Torres wrote: > > > Just curious... > > > > Why not using CUPS ? > > > > I've been using it since times' night with no issues. > > I use CUPS and i'm intrigued by the thread. > > I have two printers, one at home and one in the office. > > After I switched to Devuan for all my personal computers, something > strange happened to me and I'm still not sure it is related to > Devuan. Believe me when I say I did look deeply into this, but still > did not manage to get the art of troubleshooting to enligthen my path. > > The printer at home worked fine for years, then had some red light > blinking crisis, believing its toner was over, but it wasn't in fact, > no actual sign of it on the printed result. Nevertheless, I did change > the toner. Since the red blinking started and even after the change of > the toner (which stopped the red blinking) CUPS stopped being capable > of printing to it. > > OTOH the printer at the office has never stopped working, before my > switch to Devuan and up to now. > > I'm completely puzzled by this problem to the point I imagine I know > how RMS felt like when he started the GNU project. Believe me or not, > since this happened and as of today I do go to my office to print out > things, or ask my partner for help. And I'm not a consumer-minded > person so I refuse to buy a new printer. > > So I'm reading all this thread with interest as its not making me feel > alone lost on this puzzle. > > I don't believe this is really related to Devuan: following the work > of Didier on the package > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/cups/commits/debian/jessie the > time his commits were made do not coincide at all with the times the > events on my side occurred.
Wasn't there a time when CUPS was suspected of havin a systemd connexion? If not, it was suspected of being as obscure and opaque as systemd. It, with foomatic, appears to install a database of zillions of drivers, which I would have to install to get the oonly one I really need. It feels like overkill. lpr seems to be the traditional Unix way of doing things, without CUPS. It might have been easier if I had found the documentation earlier. -- hendrik > > ciao > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
